Device for



(No Model.)

E. P. GROOM. DEVICE FOR APPLYING STAY WIRES T0 WIRE EENG'ES.

No. 552,471 l v Patented De0.3'1,11895.

UNITED vSTATES c PATE- Nr EDWARD neRooM, or GALLATIN',` iii'IssOR-,AssiGNeRQnijnRor AND MEsNE MANN, PLACE.

ASSIGNMENTS, or Two-Trumps":froMiLTEwINe ELW0oD D. FRANKv A. woopnurn,ANnaonN fweenRUnF,-or SAME srncr'rrcArroN forming pm of #devraient No.552,471., ama regenten-sr; reefs. f

To llflw'hom/ zit may cmzcernlf'lfV Beit known that I, EDWARD' F.;G3001, a? citizen of the United States, lress idi1 `r,gat? Gr-al- .zlatin, in the county of Daviess vand.State'of 5 Missouria have inventednew and u siefulgllnl.

privemem's in Devi-@GS for. Applying. serv S im", Of Which-wardens..

`Strands or :Wire

is-a'specification. y lhis invention has for its object 'to pre'ivide.'y

fro 'a' novel, simple, efticient,and economical du! plex spool-Jcarrierparticularly designed-' r conveniently and rapidly applyingyerticastayfwires to the longitudinal strand'sofI \v;fire

v fencing7 but-useful for other'purposessuch. V .as making bird-nets,lawn-tennis 'netsf'an animal-cages or other sti'fu'cturesk wherein lon-]vgitu'dinal strands of Wire or other material arey connected bytransverse stays of similar ma,- terialwhich is adapted =to be rolled4on reels.

2.o or spools and be unwound therefro'mas-'fthe transverse strandslareapplied in the' manuproduction of the fencing or'otheljv i yproirimately coincident with the longitudinal 3o axis of the frame, asingle spool-carrying axle or. shaft mounted approximately central iuthe open'frame, and a pair of spools mounted on the said single aXleorshaft, and adapted to carry two independent wire rolls, the endsof-which are led in opposite directions from the spools throughthe'wire-delivery eyes at the ends of the frame. n

The specific construction of the device,4 and"- the manner of operatingthe same in apply- 4o ing the :stay-wires, will be fully hereinafter'-.described in detail, reference being made ",t'ov the accompanyingdrawings, in whic'h Figure lisa perspective view. showing sev-4 eralongiturflinal strands or wires with my improved device in position forapplying and securing the transverse stay-wire thereto,.the parts beingin the position they occupy before the device is rotated around .thelongitudinal wire upon which the device rests.- Fig. 2 isJanendfelevation sslicw'ving. :the position ofthe parts after thestayfwires have'been wound .-t aro'und one-'of the longitudinally'viresand. the. devicehasbeenlovveredFagainstfand. is beingrotatedaroundanother longitudinalwire for arepetitionof the'operation. Figi-"3isaplan tional-view taken on thelinefii' oflig.l 3.

1n order .to enable those skilled linv the art to make-and use myinventiom I- will now describe, .th e same in detailyreferring tothedawings; wherein itjwillbeseenthat the open rame of thedevicecomprisesfjsubstantially Iparallelsidef-bars 'or membersl andi?,conall of which parts are vpreferably composed of s'ufcientlystron'g.bent into the form.shown.

"nectedby endfcross.` bars ormembers 3 and 4,

their centers with v'wre-delivery eyes 5 andv 6,

'Ss view onja larger scale off-the improveddevice :for applying the staystrands o'rwires to fenc j ingor other structures,andiFig. 4 is -a secjwire, or Wire. rods suitablybetwe'en'which *the straudsor wires 7 and 8areextended fromthe rolls 9 and 10, carried i by spools 12 and 13,. iThe. spools 'are rotatably Imounted upon `.an-"axle orshaft 15,preferably 'composed ofA va" detachable bolt extending through the: sidebars. .or members 1 and 2 each .composed of a cylindrical bodyfportioncentrally" between thefendslthereof, sie-that .upen .the same axle orshaft.' The-'spools are and twedisk-heads 14, for the purpose ofen-,abling'fthe'wireto be wound thereupon and 1 'tov retain thewire inposition 'for' its subse :quent delivery in the `man'u'ia'ctu're of fwire fencing or other structures. The vvs fire-delive'ry eyesareso-,relativelyY disposed.- that they will properlysdeliver the ppermost,as is'ne'cess'ary in the manipulawire whichever side of the open frameis The wire-delivery eyes are-arranged approxi'- mately coincident withAthemaj or axis of the' open" frame, soth'at the two wires are deliveredcoincident with the major axis, or ap- The cross-barsand 4'of the openframe are provided with upleX-forke'dv bearings or rests 1G, eachcomposed ofl avertie-al cross-j arm having itsends bif-urcated orforked,.as at 17, so that either ffork can straddle a longitudinalfence-Wire. .The forks 17 constitute bearings which facilitate therotation of the spo ol-carryingframe in" a circular path around thefence-Wire, as Will-be obvious from anv inspection of Fig.2of.the'drz'tvvings-v The Vforks 17 lie coincident with the spacebetween the inner contiguous ends ofthe cylindrical bodies of the spools12 and 13, so that when` two of the forks 17 straddle a fence-Wire thelatter lies in the space between the disk-heads 14 on the inner ends ofthe spool-bodies.y

The disk-heads on the inner-ends ofV the.

are held separated `by `placing nalin'gthe open spool-bodies them atsome little distance from the extremv ities of the cylindrical bodies ofthe spools,

so that although the inner ends of Ithe cylindrical bodies of theAspools are4 contiguous the disk-heads at the inner end portions of thecylindrical bodies are somewhat Widely separated for the'purpose ofprovidingthe necessary space to'receive .the longitudinal fence-wire.

In the practical use of the device, the ends of the two strands or wires7 and 8 are fasthe longitudinal strand.

tened to theupper longitudinal strand or wireV 18 of the fencing, which.can be. readily v ef-v fected by lapping the ends of the Wire around ltvwill of course be-understood that the longitudinal Wires are firststretched in proper position.4 The open frame is then pressed downwardby the operator until two of the forks 17 straddle and rest uponthesecond longitudinal strand 19,

as will be understood by reference to Fig. 1.A The frame is then rotatedin a vertical plane once orl twice around the wire 19, leaving the frameon the under side of the wire,: after which the operation above'specified' .is repeated until the transverse or vertical staywires areall applied to the longitudinalwires.'

The ehiefadvantages of-my invention reside in its simplicity ofconstruction and the facility with which it can be economically manuz'axleor shaft 15.

:frame may be gui lthe inner ends of rated to provide 'an interveningspace for the operated in actual use, due4 by transverse stays ofmaterial which can be Wound on reels or spools and unwound therefromduring the application of the transverse stay-strands. 4. p ,5

In thepractieal use of my invention the ded vertically through. themedium of parallel uprights, as is usual in devicesof a similarcharacter for applying transverse stay-'wires topthe longitudinal wiresyof 'afence u The duplex-forked cross-arms, mounted on vthe-cross-bars ofthe open frame in a plane coincident with the `major ax'is of the frame,are important features, in that they enable the` frame to be accuratelyrotated on a longi tudinal wire and avoid the necessity of jourframebetween uprights, as heretofore.

Having thus described my inventionlwhat I-'claim is-v-` I Y v v1. Adevice for manufacturing Wire fencing, consistingbfsan open frame havingits ends providedwith wire-delivery eyes and duplex forkedl bearingslocated above and be'.- low said eyes for'the purpose ofstraddling alongitudinal wire whichever side of the frame vis uppermost, ausingle.spool-holding shaft mounted centrall'yinlsaidV frame, and a 'pair 'ofwire-carrying spools both-mountedon said 4 shaft, substantiallyasdescribed. Y

2; Adeviee for manufactu1i1ig;'\'vi1e fencing, consistingof an openframe comprising parallel j side bars and `transverse end bars, each endbar having'a cross-arm forked at its extremities and between which forksthe Wiredelivery'eye is located', said eye and said duplex forked.crossarm ofeach transverse bar lying approximately coincident with themajor axis ofthe frame, a single spool-holding-l shaft mounted in theopen'frame, and a pair the spools being held separeception of ythelongitudinal wire when the forked cross-arms straddle said wire,substantially as described.

f' In testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses. A Y

EDWARDF. GROOM.

Yllitnesses:l t

JOHN W. MEADE, I .Cf-A. NETHERTON.

. v vof spools mounted on said shaft and having,y disk-heads at theirends, the disk-heads at,

